NHL cancels more games, through Dec. 30

As expected. This really doesn’t mean much, because they weren’t going to start up by then anyway, and even if they do, the old schedule will need a complete overhaul for the 48 or 50-something games they would play.

From the NHL:

NHL ANNOUNCES CANCELLATION OF 2012-13 REGULAR-SEASON SCHEDULE THROUGH DECEMBER 30

NEW YORK (December 10, 2012)–The National Hockey League announced

today the cancellation of the 2012-13 regular-season schedule through

December 30. The cancellations are necessary due to the absence of a new

Collective Bargaining Agreement between the NHL Players’ Association and

the NHL.

A total of 526 regular-season games — 42.8 percent of the season — were

Does this hurt the league’s share of media revenue? I quote CARP quoting the NY Times:

“the NHL will get 100 percent of its sponsorship money if it plays 62 games, and just 68 percent if it plays 56 games, and 61 percent if it plays 50 games. So perhaps the owners/NHL are under more pressure to get this thing done than are the players.”

What no statement from Daly complaining about how the league/owners are losing X amount of dollars from cancelling so many games due to their own lockout? Tsk, tsk, NHL PR is slipping… or laid off already.

It was mostly rhetorical, but thanks :) Ugh, this whole thing sucks for them and other team/arena workers the most. If I worked for a team and was laid off like some of them, I’d look into suing the league..

Good morning all! Doodie, on another dreary day that link totally cheered me up! Excellent posts by you guys, too! Yet even today, the pretzels would still make you thirsty. But maybe there would be a way to save the fish.

lets say there was a 48 game season….all play inside the conference…how would that even break down evenly…
if you play the 10 teams(outside your divison) three times thats 30 games leaving 18 for divisional games but 18/4 teams in the division breaks down to 4.5 so thats not even

if you play 10 teams(outside your division) twice thats 20 games..leaves 28 for divisional games, 28/4 teams in the division is 7 interdivision games? thats alot of interdivisional games

even a 50 game season is wierd because you can do 30 games vs the rest of the conference and then 20 games with the 4 divisional teams make 5 games vs the division but then you run into the issue of 2 home games 3 away games…sooo…ideas??…

I feel like Buttman would be so spiteful and so vindictive that even if they were actually “close” to a deal he would purposly NOT let a deal go through just because he said “were not that close” so later he could say “SEE TOLD YA SOO NANANA”

… and bull dog, Yankees fans are losers (like Rangers fans) who wont welcome him. I welcome him because it’ll be nice to see professional plate appearances, and he’s a versatile guy that can play both corner infield positions and the outfield.

put a fork in it the season is over.. buttman is a friggin moron. the ny times article is no different then my posts for months.

nashville, phx., nj, and others cannot afford to be in the league nor should they be in the league until buttman stops catering to those paupers the league will be in quicksand. move the teams or contract…

nj to kc, nashville to canada, phx, to seattle… how friggin complicated is that..

wildplaces – that is an outstanding article and clearly demonstrates why Bettman is bad for the NHL – insistence on franchises with low local revenues and ticket sales which make up the lions share of their revenue, lack of revenue sharing with the big teams, inferior TV deal, loss of nearly 10% of games during his tenure and complete and utter lack of labour peace thanks to his tactics.